I'm still new to the site, but I'm trying to find if there's interest in a free-form RP using the RWBY setting, as well as if there would be anyone willing to take the role as the lead GM. I've been doing free form for 3 years, but haven't truly made strides toward GM'ing myself. (ADHD and such prevent me from the careful planning that I've seen past GMs do to keep experiences from feeling too stale or random)
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Careful planning isn't really needed. It just depends on your style. I myself run campaigns from scratch with zero prep. Though I find systems very helpful in maintaining consistency, communication, among other things, but for freeform you can simply take notes instead.

Look up The Alexandrian Node Based Design. Really, it makes things much easier for those who do prep, but for those who try to "wing it" many of the concepts there are even more helpful. In the end though, you just need a vague idea of what the important NPCs and their lackeys are doing, then present the consequences to the players.

9 times out of 10, if a GM needs lots of prep, it is because they are making an unfortunately common mistake, which is to have a set plot line that requires the PCs to do or achieve certain things at particular places and times, and much prep work is towards making sure the PCs make the "right" choices to follow the path the GM so painstakingly set up.

All around easier, and better for the players, if the GM sets up a situation and makes the consequences highly visible, and important to, the PCs. Far less prep work, and much easier to build and play "on the fly."

That's the general idea I was going for. Just lay out basic points of conflict and see how the players react. But even something simple like that can be difficult for me at times, due to starting at point A, and ending somewhere on the lines of magnetic physics and horses.

There is probably a demand for a game like this. I was lurking in a RWBY game for months, but that game recently froze and seems to have died. I would likely not play in nor run it because I have never made a RWBY-themed original character that interested me much. I would likely continue to lurk and see what other gamers are doing in that setting.

Also, I just want to say that DarkLightHitomi is granting some excellent advice up there.